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Strategies for Inclusion and Equality -- 'Norm-Critical' Sex Education in Sweden
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Bengtsson, Jenny; Bolander, Eva – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2020
This article examines the tactical (counter) politics of inclusive and 'norm-critical' approaches in Swedish sex education, focusing on the enactment of this critical agenda in sex education practices and how teachers interpret and negotiate the possibilities and pitfalls of this kind of work. The analysis draws on participant observation in sex…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Equal Education, Sex Education
Inviting Queer Ideas into the Science Classroom: Studying Sexuality Education from a Queer Perspective
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Lundin, Mattias – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2014
Science education has been pointed out as fact-based and built on reliable knowledge. Nevertheless, there are areas that include other aspects. Sexual education is, according to the Swedish syllabus, such an example and it involves aspects as love, sexuality and relations. These aspects suggest a possible tension between the biological and…
Descriptors: Science Education, Homosexuality, Sex Education, Foreign Countries
Swedish Schools and Gender Equality in the 1970s
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Hedlin, Maria – International Education Studies, 2013
In Sweden, as in many countries before Sweden, boys' academic achievements are getting considerable attention as the big gender issue. The Swedish gender equality policy that was put on the agenda in the 1970s is now associated with extreme discussions. This study aims to explore how gender equality was discussed in the 1970s, in connection with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sex Fairness, Equal Education, Gender Issues
"It's Her Body". When Students' Argumentation Shows Displacement of Content in a Science Classroom
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Orlander Arvola, Auli; Lundegard, Iann – Research in Science Education, 2012
This paper approaches learning as a response instead of the acquisition of something previously expected. More specifically, it describes a process of argumentation on socioscientific issues in a classroom situation in school science amongst 15-year-old students in Sweden. The analysis of an argumentation on abortion in a science classroom…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Classroom Environment, Foreign Countries, Science Instruction
Normative Approaches to Justice in Physical Education for Pupils with Physical Disabilities--Dilemmas of Recognition and Redistribution
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Jerlinder, Kajsa; Danermark, Berth; Gill, Peter – Disability & Society, 2009
Seeking social justice in education for pupils with disabilities creates certain dilemmas. A "school for all" means that educators are faced with the dilemma whereby the notion of "disability" is perceived as ought not to matter but where in actual fact it seems to matter very much! This article explores ways out of this…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Physical Education, Social Status, Physical Disabilities
Social Justice and Welfare State in Decline.
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Nilsson, Ingrid – 1998
Many of the educational changes during the last decade are international in respect to both form and content. Behind the global flow of ideas and ideologies, there is an accelerated competition for positions at the marketplace. The role of education in the new liberal rhetoric is explicitly to give direct and substantial economic results.…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Objectives, Equal Education, Foreign Countries